Cloud Servers

Managed VMs and bare-metal servers in the cloud

Most computing happens in the cloud. But most cloud providers leave you with infrastructure alone and little-to-no support—or, worse, charge an exorbitant premium for what little support they do offer.

Starting at $0.032/hr

for raw infrastructure

We're different. We know it takes more than infrastructure to get the most out of a cloud—it takes expertise. It takes the willingness to understand what our customers consider success in the cloud, and help them achieve it. That's why we only offer managed cloud, backing your infrastructure with our in-house, high-touch Cloud Engineers and Fanatical Support® 24x7x365.

We can help you architect and implement cloud workloads at scale.

We can help run your day-to-day operations—monitoring, responding to alarms, updating your operating systems, and more—all with a dedicated account team.

Top Features

Built for reliability

Cloud Servers reside in our world-class data centers, with hardware RAID 10 storage for virtual machines, no moving parts for bare-metal servers, ECC memory, and fully redundant networking and power all the way to the host.

Power of bare metal

Global regions

Access to multiple regions lets you deploy applications close to your users and introduce geographic redundancy. Regions include Northern Virginia, Dallas, Chicago (available upon request), London, Sydney, and Hong Kong. (Compute v1 and Memory v1 flavor classes are not available in London, Sydney, or Hong Kong. OnMetal™ Cloud Servers are currently available only in Northern Virginia.)

Pricing

We don't offer infrastructure without service. Your application needs more than just a high-performance, reliable cloud infrastructure. Achieving great business outcomes requires knowing how to run the most demanding workloads in a cost-effective way. That's why every account includes services and expertise, along with a high-performance, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.

Choose the service level that's right for your business needs (you can also change service levels as your business needs change):

Managed Infrastructure

If you prefer to do the labor yourself, we'll help you get set up and be there whenever you need us. We'll provide architecture and security guidance, code development assistance, and launch managers—all with 24x7x365 support. Pricing is a total of raw infrastructure + the Managed Infrastructure rate, with a minimum service charge of $50/mo across all Cloud Servers (virtual and bare metal).

Managed Operations: SysOps

Let us help manage your entire cloud ops for you. Including all the benefits of Managed Infrastructure, plus monitoring, OS maintenance/patching, application maintenance, and more—we'll do the heavy lifting for you. Pricing is a total of raw infrastructure + the Managed Operations rate, with a minimum service charge of $500/mo across all Cloud Servers (virtual and bare metal).

Managed Operations: DevOps Automation

Including the benefits of both Managed Infrastructure and Managed Operations: SysOps, we'll also automate your application environment by treating your infrastructure as code. Pricing is a total of raw infrastructure + the Managed Operations rate (without minimum service charge) + a $2,500/mo flat fee. This service level option automatically qualifies for a volume discount on Cloud Server usage.

Service level rates and minimums apply only when you use Cloud Servers.

1 The number of virtual CPUs assigned to your Cloud Server. A vCPU corresponds to a physical CPU thread.

2 The amount of disk space allocated to your Cloud Server's operating system. System disks are RAID 10-protected and are captured when you image a server.

3 The amount of additional disk space allocated for your application data. Data disks are RAID 10-protected and are NOT captured when you image a server.

4 The amount of aggregate outbound bandwidth across all attached network interfaces (PublicNet, ServiceNet, Cloud Networks). The maximum amount of outbound public Internet bandwidth is limited to 50% of the aggregate limit. Inbound traffic is not limited. Host networking is redundant and bandwidth is delivered over two separate bonded interfaces, each able to carry 50% of the aggregate limit. We recommend using multiple Layer 4 connections to maximize throughput.

Additional pricing details

Bandwidth

Outgoing —Outgoing bandwidth usage for Cloud Servers, Cloud Files, Cloud Load Balancers, and Cloud Big Data is aggregated per account across all US regions. Tiered pricing applies to your total usage, so you pay less per GB the more you use.

Discounts available

Get consistency with bare metal in the cloud

To run at scale, you used to have to make a choice: If you chose the elasticity and agility of cloud, you faced the inconsistencies of a muliti-tenant environment. If you chose the simplicity and performance of dedicated hardware, you had to give up elasticity.

Now, with instantly provisioned OnMetal Cloud Servers you can get best of both worlds. OnMetal Cloud Servers are bare-metal instances that are highly optimized for the key workloads of typical internet applications.

You can easily combine VMs with bare-metal servers in the cloud, based upon your application requirements. And if you need a highly customized configuration, you can connect Cloud Servers—virtual or bare metal—to your dedicated environment.

We’re spending a little less than we were before with our dedicated server. And by moving to the Cloud, we’re getting twice as much computing out of it.